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“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” —Jane Goodall

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What better day can there be to kick off my April blog post than the Earth Day! A day that people celebrate each year on 22nd April through events, rallies, parades and show their support around the world. For me, Earth day is all about appreciating our nature and all the natural resources we have and also taking a pledge to not waste them by making small changes in my lifestyle. A small effort that I start off from my home.

Earth day was first celebrated on April 22nd 1970, in US. It was started by former US senator Gaylord Nelson after devastating oil spill in Santa Barbara, California in January and February of 1969. It was the largest oil spill in US waters at the time.

All these years we have been using all natural resources at a large scale without thinking of any future impacts. What will happen when we won’t have access to pure water and we have to travel miles and miles to get pure drinking water? And what will happen if we don’t have fresh air to breath, beautiful green trees, and plants? If we don’t start saving all the natural resources today then the day is not very far when our future generation have to struggle to get all these resources.

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In fact, these are the problems that we have already been facing for many years in our day to day life. There are so many people who don’t have access to all these natural resources. They have to struggle to get them. An average person generates 4.3 pounds of waste per day and that waste causes pollution, contributes to climate change and wastes natural resources.

Today, we are dependent on so many materialistic things to fulfil our basic needs. We use artificial things to complete our desire of natural resources. We use filter, water purifier to get pure and fresh water, why? Because our taps don’t have fresh water anymore. We don’t get fresh air under the sky. We have polluted it by various actions. We are so busy in making our life better through materialistic things that we always forget to appreciate what we already have. We all have artificial plants and flowers in our home. We have forgotten to grow them in our garden and keep them safe. We use plastics and throw them away to destroy the fertility of soil. It is high time we need to stop being selfish and try to do something for our environment.

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Some small efforts can make a big difference to the health of all living things and the planet that we all call home. Little changes in our lifestyle can do wonders. Although, we are making great progress everywhere but there is more each of us can do. So next time when you go to grocery shopping, remember to get reusable bags instead of plastic bags. Avoid buying something that you are not going to use later. Buy things that you can use again or consider donating to someone else rather than throwing them way. Look around in your communities and neighbours to find a garden that can take your food scrapes for compost. Find out the place where you can put them for recycling. Remember to turn off lights all day when sunlight could be used. Keep your computers, printers, and all electronic items off when you are not using them. There are so many such small things that we can avoid in our day to day life.

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We always get all the things we want to fulfill our needs from the environment but somehow we don’t realize what our planet wants from us? We forget that we have limited resources and if we want to use them we have to save them. So let’s take a pledge today to make small changes in our lifestyle and start to make some difference starting from our homes. Appreciate our environment, love it, feel it and live with it.